Mississippi Judge Halts Rule Restricting Abortion

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September 20, 1992

JACKSON, MISS. — A judge has tossed out a state health regulation that had prohibited clinics in Mississippi from performing abortions beyond 16 weeks of pregnancy. Hinds County Chancellor Patricia Wise on Friday barred the state Department of Health from enforcing a regulation which would have required that late-term abortions be performed only at hospitals. Wise said the regulation effectively banned the procedures because no Mississippi hospital will do elective abortions past the 16th week. Wise's order will be in effect until she issues a final decision in an appeal filed by physician Thomas Tucker challenging the health regulation.